Women should be allowed to vote. Susan B. Anthony is telling the state that excluding women from voting is wrong. The Woman’s right to the Suffrage speech by Susan B. Anthony was most compelling because she used good evidence and good diction. The Constitution states it is legal for women to vote and should be allowed to vote; she communicates this idea through diction and allusion. It is illegal for the state to tell them otherwise. “For any state to make sex a qualification that must result in
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Susan. B Anthony- On women’s right to vote In the 1800s‚ women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. This speech was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay. | | | Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election‚ without having a lawful
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Susan B. Anthony was a women’s rights activist and an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. She fought for the rights of women and basically anyone else that wasn’t treated equally. She was born to a Quaker family that was neither prejudice nor biased towards anyone. Her family moved to a farm in the 1840’s and they fought to end slavery as part of the abolitionist movement. She became a teacher and later was involved with the fight of equal rights for women. In my opinion‚ I would say Susan
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Susan Brownell Anthony was known for being apart of the women’s rights movement. She inspired young women to vote everyday. Even though she is gone she is still inspiring young women to vote everyday. It is known as a tradition that after a women votes for the first time you take your sticker that you receive after you vote and you go place it on her gravestone which is located in New York where she died. Susan b. Anthony was born on February 15th‚1820 in Massachusetts. She grew up in a Quaker household
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During Ever since Susan B. Anthony was sixteen years old‚ she pursued the journey to fight for women’s rights and suffrage. She struggled with many tough times and felt as if she were a failure. Although‚ in 1860‚ Anthony used her knowledge and experience to get the Married Women’s Property Act established‚ which allowed women to keep the money they have earned‚ own property‚ and divorce. This means that women now have freedom from men‚ they could keep their earnings‚ divorce their husband‚ and could
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haystack. In the passages “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” by Susan B. Anthony and “Freedom or Death” by Emmeline Pankhurst‚ one author uses the appeal of credibility and the other author uses the appeal of logic to fight for women’s right to vote. Using the appeal of credibility by citing the Constitution and Declaration of Independence‚ Anthony fights for women’s voting rights. Anthony describes that she did not commit a crime that she “simply exercised my citizens right
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"The grandest and greatest reform of all time‚” Susan B. Anthony Stated proudly at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.The full importance of the revolutionary convention that changed the perceptions of women’s history. The book covers 50 years of women’s activism‚ from 1840-1890‚ focusing on four key figures in that specific period like Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone‚ and Susan B. Anthony. Just like the title states‚ McMillen tells the background stories from where they came from
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their rights‚ and nothing more; women‚ their rights‚ and nothing less." (Anthony) Susan B. Anthony was a participant in many different political movements. Her career as an activist started with her participation in the temperance movement. Her inability to speak at temperance rallies led to her joining the women’s rights movement‚ and later other movements‚ including abolition and education reform (Susan B. Anthony House). Anthony had a large impact on american history during and after the antebellum
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Some say women should not be able to vote because the US may not grant suffrage to anyone and women should remain in a separate sphere others say women are supposed to be endowed with inalienable rights‚ which includes suffrage. In source A‚ Susan B. Anthony argues that the most important aspect of granting women the right to vote is that all men are created equal and the right to vote is a declaration to the natural right of all. She states and gives facts backed by
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On November 5th 1872‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ a suffragette‚ did the impossible. She marched up to the voting booth in Rochester‚ New York and tried to place a ballot for Ulysses S. Grant election of 1872. She was arrested before she could place the ballot into the voting booth‚ but this courageous act created a huge growth and push for The Women’s Suffrage movement of 1920. In The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell‚ Gladwell explains the concept of Tipping Points and their effects on global epidemics.
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